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Alexander Popov

Alexander Popov, full name Aleksandr Vitalyevich Popov, is a Russian trance DJ and producer born in Saratov in 1986, an exclusive Armada Music artist for more than ten years.

Sep 27, 2026

Alexander Poulev is a Bulgarian politician, born in 1981 in Plovdiv, serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy, Investments and Industry after earlier posts in transport and innovation.

Alexander Povetkin (Александр Владимирович Поветкин)

Alexander Povetkin (Александр Поветкин), Russian heavyweight boxer born 1979, 2004 Olympic super-heavyweight gold medalist, WBA world champion 2011-2013, WBC interim champion 2020; retired 2021 at 36-3-1 with 25 knockouts.

Alexander Prokhanov (Александр Андреевич Проханов)

Alexander Andreyevich Prokhanov (Александр Андреевич Проханов, born 1938, Tbilisi) is a Russian novelist and editor-in-chief of Zavtra, formerly Den; village prose, war correspondence, the 1991 GKChP manifesto, and the National Bestseller-winning Gospodin Geksogen distinguish him.

Alexander Protopopov

Alexander Dmitrievich Protopopov (Александр Дмитриевич Протопопов, 1866–1918) was a Russian nobleman, landowner, and Duma deputy who served as minister of internal affairs from September 1916 until the February Revolution of 1917.

Oct 21, 2026

Alexander Purnell

Alexander (Alex) Purnell, Australian rower born 1995 in Brisbane, Sydney University Boat Club; Olympic gold in the men's coxless four at Tokyo 2020 in Olympic record 5:42.76, sixth in the eight at Paris 2024; brother of Nicholas Purnell; OAM 2022. Not the Canadian runner Alec Purnell.

Oct 21, 2026

Alexander Pusch

Alexander Pusch (born 1955 in Tauberbischofsheim) is a German épée fencer who won four Olympic medals for West Germany, including individual gold at Montréal 1976, and was elected Germany's Fencer of the Century in 2001.

Alexander Pushkin (Александр Сергеевич Пушкин)

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (Александр Сергеевич Пушкин, 1799–1837), Russian poet, playwright, and prose writer, founder of modern Russian literature and creator of the Russian literary language; author of Eugene Onegin, Boris Godunov, and The Tales of Belkin; died in a duel with d'Anthès.

Alexander R. Troiano

Alexander Robert Troiano (1908–2002) was an American physical metallurgist at Case Western Reserve University whose work on hydrogen embrittlement and delayed failure of steels was republished as a foundational work.

Alexander Radishchev

Alexander Radishchev (Александр Радищев) was a Russian writer whose 1790 book A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow attacked serfdom and led to his exile in Siberia.

Alexander Raleigh

Alexander Raleigh (1817–1880) was a Scottish-born English Congregational minister, a celebrated Victorian preacher who twice chaired the Congregational Union and was the father of Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh.

Alexander Razborov

Alexander Razborov (born 1963) is a Russian mathematician at the University of Chicago known for circuit lower bounds, the natural proofs barrier, and flag algebras.

Alexander Reid

Alexander Reid was a Scottish schoolteacher and barley farmer who founded The Macallan distillery at Easter Elchies, Moray, in 1824, running it until his death in 1847.

Sep 20, 2026

Alexander Rich

Alexander Rich (1924–2015) was an American biochemist and biophysicist who spent nearly six decades at MIT, known for the transfer RNA structure and the discovery of Z-DNA.

Alexander Rinke

Alexander Rinke is a German technology entrepreneur who co-founded Celonis, the Munich-based process intelligence software company, in 2011 and co-leads it; Forbes estimates his stake at 15%.

Alexander Rives

Alexander Rives is an AI researcher and entrepreneur who led Meta AI's ESM protein language model team and co-founded EvolutionaryScale, an AI biology company, in 2023.

Alexander Rodchenko (Александр Михайлович Родченко)

Alexander Rodchenko (Александр Михайлович Родченко, 1891–1956), Russian Constructivist painter, graphic designer, and photographer; pioneer of photomontage, Mayakovsky's advertising partner, and maker of the 1924 Books poster.

Oct 22, 2026

Alexander Romance

The Alexander Romance, falsely attributed to Callisthenes as Pseudo-Callisthenes, is a Greek fictionalized life of Alexander the Great and among the most translated works of antiquity.

Alexander Ross Clarke

Alexander Ross Clarke (1828–1914) was a British geodesist and Royal Engineers officer who headed the Ordnance Survey's trigonometric work and determined the figure of the Earth in 1858, 1866, and 1880.

Alexander Rossi

Alexander Rossi (born 1991, Nevada City, California) is an American IndyCar driver for Ed Carpenter Racing, 2016 Indianapolis 500 winner, and former Manor Marussia Formula 1 driver with five 2015 starts.

Alexander Røssing-Lelesiit

Alexander Røssing-Lelesiit (born 2007, Nittedal) is a Norwegian winger for Hamburger SV, signed from Lillestrøm SK in February 2025, contract to 2030, Norway U19 international.

Sep 20, 2026

Alexander Rudensky

Alexander Y. Rudensky is an American immunologist known for identifying Foxp3 as the factor defining regulatory T cells, and director of the Ludwig Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering.

Alexander Rybak

Alexander Rybak (born 1986, Minsk) is a Belarusian-Norwegian singer, violinist and composer who won Eurovision 2009 for Norway with "Fairytale" on a record 387 points, returned in 2018, and works in film music.

Sep 21, 2026

Alexander S. Mankin

Alexander S. Mankin is a molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago who studies the ribosome and how antibiotics inhibit protein synthesis.

Sep 20, 2026

Alexander S. Nadas

Alexander S. Nadas was a Hungarian-born American pediatric cardiologist who founded Boston Children's Hospital's cardiology department in 1949, wrote the field's first comprehensive textbook in 1957, and trained over 150 fellows.

Alexander S. Szalay

Alexander S. Szalay is a Johns Hopkins astrophysicist and computer scientist known for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey archive and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.

Alexander S. Wiener

Alexander S. Wiener was an American physician, serologist, and geneticist who co-discovered the Rh blood factor with Karl Landsteiner in 1940 and won a Lasker Award.

Alexander Samsonov

Alexander Samsonov (Александр Васильевич Самсонов) was a Russian general whose 2nd Army was destroyed in East Prussia in August 1914, after which he died by his own hand.

Alexander Samwer

Alexander Samwer is a German internet entrepreneur, the youngest of the three Samwer brothers, who co-founded Rocket Internet in 2007, sat on Zalando's supervisory board, and founded Picus Capital.